Sport first this week and a story about jockey Pat Eddery's retirement, illustrated with a picture of Frankie Dettori but with a caption which said it was Eddery.

The error was spotted Jane Derrick, from Hove, who asks if I can imagine her disgust especially since she looks forward to reading Friday's paper.

She continues: "I know very little about horse racing but I know the difference between Frankie Dettori and Pat Eddery.

"Do you think the public are so naive? Please get your act together - if I told lies I would end up in court. Please make amends as I am sure I am not the only one to realise they were being sold a kipper."

You're not, madam - electrical contractor Richard Turk, from Lewes, also wrote in. Thanks - and sorry - to you both.

On the other hand, a reader from Hove, whose name I couldn't make out, asks me to pass on thanks to Patrick Kelly for his "comprehensive and knowledgeable" greyhound column which is "accurately and helpfully" written.

The reader, who says he or she owns Robeson (a greyhound presumably), adds: "London local papers provide no such service about such a very popular community sport."

He or she is also "glad" after reading our interview with the mother of teenage tearaway Daniel Bowler on June 18 we had "tempered and indirectly showed remorse" for our original front page story with which he was pictured giving a double V-sign after being made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order.

"Please think again about naming and shaming children," says the reader. "It limits their chances of rehabilitation."

Peter Bailey, from Brighton, says our story on Thursday last week about Chris Eubank's stint as a waiter moved the Mad Hatter caf in Montpelier Road to Hove when, of course, the street is in Brighton.

He also says he couldn't believe his eyes when he read Saturday's front page story about three conmen who "weaved" a multi-million pound web of deception.

"As I am sure you'll agree," he says, "the past tense of to weave is wove.

"To make matters worse, I noticed in last Friday's paper a story about an idiot skateboarder containing the words 'he weaved in and out of oncoming traffic'."

You are right and wrong, Peter, according to my Cassell Concise Dictionary and www.dictionary.com to weave is an irregular verb and the past tense is usually wove (or woven) when referring to, say, clothing making or spinning a web but it's weaved when it refers to taking a zig-zag course, such as in traffic. Thanks for the brain food.

Terence Sinnott, from Brighton, says he was baffled by the part of a report on Thursday last week on television detector vans, which claimed the first one was used in 1926.

He explains: "The BBC began TV transmissions in 1936 (okay, trial broadcasts were made in 1927 but with a very limited number of receivers). I assume the first detector vans were for non-licensed radio receivers.

"I look forward to the name of the inventor of the tin opener patented before tinned goods were made, the opening of the first airfield/aerodrome before the first aeroplanes and the manufacture of the electric iron prior to electricity etc." Yes, thank you, Terence, we get the picture (if you'll excuse my pun).

And finally, a complaint from a Mrs Britter, who rang to say that in our monthly horoscopes last Thursday we got the dates wrong for the main star sign of Cancer, confusing them with Aries. Sorry - the prediction was right, though (if you see what I mean).